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Lenovo ThinkCentre A70z all-in-one: dull specs, speedy start-up

By Chris Davies on Monday, Nov 2nd 2009 No Comments

Remember Lenovo’s mysterious all-in-one that showed up in the company’s Flickr stream last week? The desktop has been named and detailed today, as the Lenovo ThinkCentre A70z, and while it’s targeted at small and medium businesses there’s still plenty of appeal if you like your desktops functional rather than showy. The ThinkCentre A70z has a choice of Intel Celeron or Core 2 Duo processors, 19-inch display and – while the specifications are really nothing to get excited about – does at least do a convincing impression of a simple LCD monitor.

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ASUS Eee PC T91MT multitouch up for US preorder

By Chris Davies on Monday, Nov 2nd 2009 No Comments

Having gone up for preorder in Europe midway through October, the upcoming multitouch-capable ASUS Eee PC T91MT has now shown up for preorder in the US. Amazon are listing the convertible touchscreen netbook – the T91MT-PU17-WT, to give it its full, catchy title – for $549, though they don’t have any specific release date.

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Cowon W2 MID with Atom CPU revealed by Bluetooth SIG

By Chris Davies on Monday, Nov 2nd 2009 No Comments

Gadgets leaked by text are far less exciting than blurry, hurriedly-snapped photos, but we won’t turn up our noses at a preview no matter the method. It now appears that Cowon have a touchscreen MID in the works, the Cowon W2, according to a test page at the Bluetooth SIG, though specifications are still scant.

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SlashGear Week in Review – Week 44 2009

By Shane McGlaun on Sunday, Nov 1st 2009 No Comments

The weeks are just flying by, time change is this weekend so I hope you aren’t late for anything. The holidays will be here before we know it. This has been another busy week in the gadget world. HTC has confirmed that Android 2.0 smartphones are incoming and the HTC Dragon is the likely first Android 2.0 device to come from HTC.

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Soyea Z5 Atom MID packs 3G

By Chris Davies on Friday, Oct 30th 2009 No Comments

If you’ve seen one Chinese MID, the saying goes, you’ve seen them all, and yet we still keep digging through the dross in the hope of turning up something shiny and loveable. The latest glimmer amongst the grubs is the Soyea Z5, an Atom Z515 1.2GHz based ultraportable with a 5-inch WVGA touchscreen, 1GB of RAM, integrated 3G and a choice of Windows XP or Linux.

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Intel Microserver open-standard planned

By Chris Davies on Friday, Oct 30th 2009 No Comments

Intel are readying a new standard for so-called “microservers“, based on the company’s prototype targeted at low-traffic websites. The open standard would describe a royalty-free, compact alternative to blade servers – powered by Intel processors, naturally – which combines both low idle power draw and fast response times. Intel’s current prototype has a 1.86GHz quad-core Lynnfield processor paired with four memory slots.

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Apple reject Intel Moorestown as too power-hungry?

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Oct 28th 2009 No Comments

Apple logo 926391 Rumors are circulating that Apple has rejected Intel’s Moorestown chips as unsuitable for their mobile device range, after Cupertino engineers decided that the Intel CPUs demanded far too much power. According to Fudzilla, Apple have informed Intel that Moorestown needs to have one-tenth the idle power consumption it manages currently before it’ll be suitable for any of Apple’s devices.

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Lenovo Ion-toting IdeaPad S12 eventually hits shelves

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Oct 28th 2009 No Comments

It feels like we’ve been waiting for Lenovo’s IdeaPad S12 with NVIDIA Ion graphics for months, probably because it has been months. Announced back in May, demonstrated to us in June, then officially delayed in August until Windows 7’s launch, the arrival of the new Microsoft OS means Lenovo can finally push the IdeaPad S12 Ion out of the door.

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Intel X25-M SSD update yanked over Windows 7 flaw

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Oct 28th 2009 No Comments

Intel have yanked their recent X25-M SSD firmware update, after users reported the new software killed Windows 7 installations. The update introduced TRIM support to the solid-state drives, together with boosting sequential write performance by up to 40-percent; however, some Intel support forum users have discovered that after rebooting their Windows 7 machine the new OS will no longer load.

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eviGroup Pad gets video hands-on; Update: on sale now

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Oct 28th 2009 No Comments

Given how long it’s taking eviGroup to push out their Wallet MID, we’re quite surprised with how quickly they’re working on getting their new 10.7-inch UMPC out of the door. The eviGroup Pad has already had its first hands-on, courtesy of French site NowhereElse, who reckon the 1024 x 600 resistive touchscreen – even with a stylus – is responsive while Windows 7 runs reasonably on the 1.6GHz Atom processor.

Update: The Elite 3G version of the eviGroup Pad is on sale now for €599 plus €30 shipping ($932); they’ll also sell you an OS-free version for €539 ($799).

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